the Fourth Week after Easter
free while helping to build churches and support pastors in Uganda.
Click here to learn more!
Bible Lexicons
Old Testament Hebrew Lexical Dictionary Hebrew Lexicon
Strong's #8149 - שְׂנִיר
- Brown-Driver-Briggs
- Strong
Senir or Shenir = “snow mountain”
1) the Amorite name for Mount Hermon
- Book
- Word
Abulf ed. Par. 68, Syriac 
, Sirach 24:13 al., Assyrian Saniru COT Deuteronomy 3:9 Dl Pa 104. See also Dr Deuteronomy 3:9 Buhl Geogr. 110f. and references [van d. H. erroneous ׳שׁ Deuteronomy Cant]. שׂעף (√ of following; Thes and others identification with סעף divide (q. v.), whence following as branching out, involved; Ba Esther 56 compare 
strike the (
) pericardium, 
be disquieted by a thing).
שְׂנִיר (“coat of mail,” i.q. שִׂרְיוֹן the name by which the same mountain was known by the Sidonians, see the root שָׂנַר ; unless it be better to render שְׂנִיר “cataract,” i.q. צִנּוֹר from the noise of water), [Senir], pr.n. of Mount Hermon, so called among the Ammonites, Deuteronomy 3:9 in a narrower sense, part of Hermon, Song of Solomon 4:8; 1 Chronicles 5:23, compare Ezekiel 27:5. Arabic سنير, according to Abulfeda (see Syria, ed. Köhler, p. 164), a ridge of mountains situated to the north of Damascus.
